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  1. Cult Cult
    A picture book of a very special kind, dealing with things which have the ambition of being more than simply functional objects. Read
  2. Habitat Machines Habitat Machines
    Science fiction – the world after its destruction in the year 2347. This could be a rough description of the first impression created by the photo-montages of the Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas... Read
  3. sweet hope sweet hope
    Sweet Hope is a curtain fabric, designed by the acclaimed Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. Ideal for offices, it offers superb heat and light regulation properties. Read
  4. Maine Journal: Outward Bound Maine Journal: Outward Bound
    Where are the local architects? Sourcing furniture through Addo Novo, perhaps. Read
  5. News from the Greenhouse News from the Greenhouse
    Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009, Part II Read
  1. Award winners Fries & Zumbühl Award winners Fries & Zumbühl
    Kevin Fries and Jakob Zumbühl are the proud winners of three 'iF product design awards' and 'reddot design awards' Read
  2. Interieur / Exterieur Interieur / Exterieur
    Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Read
  3. Hundredstensunits Hundredstensunits
    The result of the continuing creative dialogue between three english designers is a range of beautiful products which are characterised by a distinctive sense for materials and proportions. Read
  4. schmidt hammer lassen architects to build largest library in Scandinavia schmidt hammer lassen architects to build largest library in Scandinavia
    Scandinavia's largest public library will be realized on the waterfront of Aarhus in western Denmark... Read
  5. Opening MUMUTH Opening MUMUTH
    UN studio Ben van Berkel are building the new faculty building of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The new building will act as the interface between the university and the public. Read
  1. ISH Frankfurt/Main 2009 ISH Frankfurt/Main 2009
    Video-interviews from the world’s leading trade fair for bathroom- , building-, energy-, air-conditioning Technology and Renewable Energies Read
  2. The Five Favourites - Part 2 The Five Favourites - Part 2
    At Stockholm Furniture Fair we asked a number of designers about their five favourite pieces there. These will be presented here in a series of articles. Read
  3. "Designers become unlimited"
    The Danes Poul Christiansen and Boris Berlin have been working together as Komplot Design for more than twenty years now. With their many and varied designs, which are characterised by cutting-edge and in many cases experimental production processes, they ... Read
  4. Housing moves on Housing moves on
    Starting with the concept of 'individual design for living', what forms, themes and tendencies determine the parameters for today's housing design? Read
  5. The Five Favourites The Five Favourites
    At Stockholm Furniture Fair we asked a number of designers about their five favourite pieces there. These will be presented here in a series of articles, beginning with the favourites and comments of Thomas Bernstrand. Read
  1. Sanitary fixtures as furniture, taps as sculptural objects Sanitary fixtures as furniture, taps as sculptural objects
    Even though for 50 years it has been one of the world's leading trade fairs for the building industry, at first glance all the things which nowadays lie behind the three letters ISH are not immediately obvious. Read
  2. The new materiality of shadows The new materiality of shadows
    For hundreds of years artists and architects have been fascinated by cast shadows and perspective – the two shaping factors of spatial representation. Today the direct control of production machinery by means of digital design tools imparts an entirely new complexity to 'optical reliefs'. Read
  3. Herzog & de Meuron 1997 - 2001 Herzog & de Meuron 1997 - 2001
    From being known only to insiders Herzog & de Meuron have become megastars, and their awards include the 2001 Pritzker Preis and the 2007 Praemium Imperiale. Volume 4 of their complete work has now been published and covers the years 1997 to 2001... Read
  4. Lost Space found - Architecture with a Story Lost Space found - Architecture with a Story
    In the main hall of the ETH Zurich the Max Frisch Archive's exhibition «The Lost Space of Stiller» continues until 13 March. Read
  5. MADE expo 2009 MADE expo 2009
    We are familiar with Milan as a major centre for design during the Salone del Mobile. However, we also wanted to know how MADE expo, which specialises in products for the construction industry, is developing as a counterpart to Munich's BAU. Read
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